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[Paolo Pisati <1287298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lately a new driver was added to staging that adds support for this
chip:

commit 3c05bedb5fef7a6ada63c5dbf61e1258b9019f05
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 11:20:45 2014 -0800

    Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver
    
    This comes directly from the Realtek tarball, filename:
        wifi_driver_8821ae_0018.1129.2013.tar.gz
    
    I mushed the three modules (btcoexist, rtlwifi and rtl8821ae) together
    into one, in order to make it all build as one stand-alone module.
    After the btcoexist driver gets merged upstream, I'll pull it out of
    here, and will continue to work on removing this version of rtlwifi in
    order to use the in-kernel one.
    
    Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


i cherry picked this driver, added it to our T kernel and made it build like a module - a test kernel is available here:

http://people.canonical.com/~ppisati/R8821AE/linux-
image-3.13.0-15-generic_3.13.0-15.35~R8821AE_amd64.deb

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Title:
  missing support for rtl8821ae

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Cheap all-in-one pcs are showing up with this wireless chip built-in,
  e.g.:

  http://www.asus.com/ASUS_VivoPC/

  and right now our T kernel doesn't have any support for it.

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